Al-Qaeda and the Siege of Africa: From the Halls of Sheba…………
“The militant group al Shabaab said it would ally with al Qaeda in a drive to establish an Islamic state in Somalia and fight for Muslims across East Africa, offering a fresh test for U.S.-backed African peacekeepers struggling to defend a weak Somali government. In a statement Monday, the group said it had agreed, among other things, "to connect the horn of Africa jihad to the one led by al Qaeda and its leader Sheikh Osama Bin Laden." The statement, written in Somali and Arabic, is believed to be the first explicit confirmation of what U.S. and Somali government have long suspected: Militants in one of Africa's least stable places are sharing resources and merging agendas. ……..”
Africa looks like it is coming under siege by al-Qaeda. From Somalia to Kenya and Yemen in the east, to Algeria and Morocco and Mauretania in the northwest, to Nigeria and other points west, the fundamentalists are networking and hooking up. Even Libya's Qadhafi is worried enough to have thrown many of the in jail.
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